Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen 1833)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Cetacea, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 723-743 : 733

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11329739
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scientific name	Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen 1833)
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Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen 1833) View in CoL

[Delphinus] coeruleoalbus Meyen 1833 View in CoL , Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Nat. Curios., 16 (2): 609.

Type Locality: "an der östlichen Küste von Südamerika; wir karpunirten ihn in der Gegend des Rio de la Plata." (= South Atlantic Ocean near Rio de la Plata, off coast of Argentina and Uruguay).

Vernacular Names: Striped Dolphin.

Synonyms: Stenella asthenops (Cope 1865) ; Stenella crotaphiscus (Cope 1865) ; Stenella euphrosyne ( Gray 1846) ; Stenella styx ( Gray 1846) ; Stenella tethyos (Gervais 1853) .

Distribution: Worldwide: cold-temperate to tropical waters.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Lower Risk (cd).

Discussion: See Mitchell (1970:720). Perrin et al. (1981, 1987) gave a revised synonymy of this species.